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This book about addiction, entertainment and compulive behavior should have a warning label that it is itself addictive while also intelligence inducing. At about 1000 pages, it gives a person a feeling that they have a large stash but I recommend pacing oneself, such as reserving it for a month of Sundays rather than the solid month spent doing little but reading described by the writer of the forward.
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Reading this book to the very end is on my life bucket list. Could have gotten from library but it’s a huge book. Best read over time. Sad this author committed suicide. He had a great mind.
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Read it before, in 1990.. Lost my copy, so bought this one to read again and see if it still reesonantes.
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But keep a dictionary handy as the author has an expansive vocabulary
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I didn't know anything about this guy until I read about his untimely death (suicide) in Rolling Stone and decided to check out his magnum opus. The book is intense and I'm only about 1/3 of the way through it, but the fellows genius was evident to me within the first page or two. Very, very detailed descriptions of mundane things and situations are used to paint a picture of an alternate future. Funny and sad all at the same time. Excellent read, if I can ever get through it (it's 1100+ pages and an exhausting read (and I mean that in a good way.)
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